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In this mailing:
- Majid Rafizadeh: Death of a
Religious Minority Under Radical Islam
- Nonie Darwish: Accept Islamic
Terror as the New Normal?
- Giulio Meotti: After Middle East,
Will Islamists Uproot Christians in Europe?
by Giulio Meotti • June 4, 2017 at
6:00 am
- About
terrorism and Islamist violence, Christian leaders offer only
words of relativism and moral equivalence. Is it possible that
after two recent big massacres of Christians, Catholic leaders
have not a single word of courage and honor, but only the same
offer of the other cheek?
- Our
secular elites condemn proselytizing only when it is practiced
by Christians, never when practiced by Muslims.
- In
Syria and Iraq, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of places of
Christian worship that Islamic fundamentalists have demolished
in the past three years These images, along with the mass
decapitations and the rape of the minorities, shock the public,
it seems, for one day.
Cardinal
Bechara Boutros Rai, the Maronite patriarch of Antioch, has said
"I have often heard from Muslims that their goal is to conquer
Europe with two weapons: their faith and their birthrate... So when
they come to Europe and see the empty churches, and find the unbelief
of Europeans, they immediately think that they will fill that void".
(Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
We do not yet know enough about the three terrorists
who, saying "This is for Allah!", killed and wounded so
many in London on June 4, but consider these two recent scenes:
Scene one: Manchester, United Kingdom, the "free
world". A British-born Muslim terrorist prays in a former
church. All around him, the Christian sites and congregations
accepted being turned into Islamic sites. The day after, this
terrorist goes on a rampage, murdering 22 concert-goers.
Scene two: Minya, Egypt, the "unfree world".
An Islamist terror group stops a bus full of Christian pilgrims. The
terrorists demand that their victims recite the Islamic creed, the shahaada.
The Christians refuse to abandon Christianity and become Muslims. The
Islamists murder them, one by one.
What do these scenes tell us? Christians resist Islam
more in the Middle East than in Europe.
by Nonie Darwish • June 4, 2017 at
5:00 am
- "The
use of terror under this doctrine [Targhib wal tarhib,
"luring and terrorizing"] is a legitimate sharia obligation."
— Salman Al Awda, mainstream Muslim sheikh, on the Al Jazeera
television show "Sharia and Life".
- Part
of the tarhib or "terrorizing" side of this
doctrine is to make a cruel example of those who do not comply
with the requirements of Islam. That is the reason Muslim
countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, and entities such as
ISIS, intentionally hold ceremonial public beheadings,
floggings, and amputation of limbs.
- Islamic
jihad has always counted on people in conquered lands eventually
to yield, give up and accept terrorism as part of life, similar
to natural disasters, earthquakes and floods.
The new
normal? Police help survivors of the terrorist attack on
London Bridge, June 4, 2017. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
After terror attacks, we often hear from Western media
and politicians that we must accept terrorist attacks as the
"new normal."
For Western citizens, this phrase is dangerous.
Islam's doctrine of jihad, expansion and dawah
(Islamic outreach, proselytizing) rely heavily on the use of both
terror and luring. Targhib wal tarhib is an Islamic doctrine
that means "seducing (luring) and terrorizing" as a tool
for dawah, to conquer nations and force citizens to submit to
Islamic law, sharia. It amounts to manipulating the instinctive parts
of the human brain with extreme opposing pressures of pleasure and
pain -- rewarding, then severely punishing -- to brainwash people
into complying with Islam.
by Majid Rafizadeh • June 4, 2017
at 4:00 am
- How
can a religion seize so much power in a country? Before
Islamists come to power, they make sham promises to every faith
and political party. Using charm, manipulation, and community
infiltration, they give the impression that they will be
defenders of minorities, the poor, and local politics. Once they
are in power, when it is too late to stop them, anyone who does
not comply with their narrow view of religion and politics will
be eliminated under the name of God and Islam.
- The
authorities engaged in hate speech and allowed hate crimes to be
committed with impunity against Baha'is, and imprisoned scores
of Baha'is on trumped-up national security charges, imposed for
peacefully practicing their religious beliefs. Allegations of
torture of 24 Baha'is in Golestan Province were not
investigated. The authorities forcibly closed down dozens of
Baha'i-owned businesses and detained Baha'i students.
- It
is not an "Iran problem", it is an epidemic of hatred
and violence that will continue to spread if something is not
done to stop it.
Since the
establishment of Iran's Islamic regime, the minority Baha'i communities
have been systematically persecuted socially, economically,
religiously and politically. Pictured at right: Iran's Supreme
Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Image source: Khamenei.ir via
Wikimedia Commons)
They were quiet family, not politically minded, and
they did not get involved in community unrest or gossip. Fear of
people knocking on the door, or of a stranger showing up in the
neighborhood with unknown intentions, drove them to withdraw from
society. They were careful, so careful, that they barely mingled with
anyone. They were our neighbors in Iran and trusted us enough to
visit with us, until one day, they no longer did.
We checked on them out of concern. Their house was
empty. There was no note, no goodbyes to anyone; they were just gone.
Despite being our friends, they had never mentioned their last name.
We had no way to track them down, to make sure they were safe and
unharmed.
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